Jeremiah with a hefty smallmouth bass caught on the Watauga River on July 16, 2001 (click image for full view)
Jeremiah arranged for an escape from the summer heat by booking a float trip for his brother-in-law Lawrence and himself. Altamont Anglers guide Travis Honeycutt manned the oars on the Watauga River, where they enjoyed the wide variety of the river's fish population, catching plenty of trout and some fine smallmouth bass, and harrassing but--alas--not catching some sizable stripers.
The trout fishing and the smallmouth bass fishing are highly regarded around Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, but what's not so widely known is the diversity of our fisheries: add in the musky and striper fishing, and local anglers have more choices than most...
Click any of the thumbnail images that follow for a slide show of the fishing on July 16, 2001:
(Altamont Anglers operates on Pisgah National Forest Rivers under USDA Forest Service Permit #PIS6560)
